Nokomis and the law in the gift: living treaty each day / Aaron Mills -- Reconcile your state of mind / Rebecca Thomas -- Don't read the comments: the role of modern news media in bridging the divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada / Waubgeshig Rice -- Canada is a pretend nation: REDx talks: what I know now about Canada / Leroy Little Bear -- Anthem / Erin Freeland -- Inclusion is just the Canadian word for assimilation: self-determination and the reconciliation paradigm in Canada / Rachael YacaaɁał George -- The path to self-determination / Natan Obed -- Can Canada retrieve the principles of its first Confederation? / Peter H. Russell -- Celebrating Canada's 150th birthday: a play in one act / Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox -- Kapyong and Treaty One First Nations: when the Crown can do no wrong / Myra J. Tait -- Canada, I can cite for you 150 / Christie Belcourt -- "To honour the lives of those taken from us": restor(y)ing resurgence and survivance through Walking with our sisters / Shalene Jobin and Tara Kappo -- Lament for Confederation / Dan George -- Language rights as Aboriginal rights: from words to action / Karen Drake -- Canada's history goes beyond 150 years / Doug Cuthand -- Forgetting to celebrate: genocide and social amnesia as foundational to the Canadian settler state / David B. MacDonald -- Kahwá:tsire: Canada 150 through the lens of Mohawk motherhood / Kahente Horn-Miller and Waneek Miller -- Canada: portrait of a serial killer / Jeff Corntassel and Christine Bird -- Her / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- Because it's 1951: the non-history of First Nations female band suffrage and leadership / Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Shelisa Klassen -- My country 'tis of thy people you're dying / Buffy Sainte-Marie -- Reconciliation on trial: evaluating what reconciliation means in the context of Aboriginal justice / David Milward -- Got tolerance? / Felicia Sinclair -- Drinking dispossession: Shoal Lake 40, Winnipeg, and the making of Canada / Adele Perry -- Refusing Canada / Eric Ritskes -- O Canada: "A country cannot be built on a living lie." / James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson -- It's not your fault / Raven Davis -- Unfinished business: bringing the Métis into Confederation / Janique Dubois and Kelly Saunders -- By any means necessary: Canada 150: no reason to celebrate as an Onkwehón:we peoples / Ellen Gabriel -- Canada's three sovereignties and the hope of Indigenous-led populism / Jobb Arnold -- Magic anniversary syndrom / Ravi de Costa -- Canada problem / Robert Jago -- Building relations: Confederation treaties and settler obligations today / Michael Asch -- Let's talk treaty / Rob Houle -- The Natives are restless: Indigenous epistemic disobedience and thinking ourselves free / Hayden King and Erica Violet Lee -- Letter to the Minister / Kurtis Schmitz -- Encountering memories on the Restigouche River / Fred Metallic and Amy Chamberlin -- 150 years and waiting: will Canada become an honourable nation? / Kiera L. Ladner -- We will help each other be great and good / Louise Mandell -- The case of invisible racism and disappearing patriarchy / Helen Knott -- Adopting and implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Canada's existential crisis / Sheryl R. Lightfoot -- Indigenous people are not the "ghosts of history": by honouring treaties and the rights they bestow, Canada can go a long way toward restoring pride, respect, and dignity to Indigenous people / Leonard Flett with Nicole Letourneau.
Summary:
"Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how-even 150 years after Confederation-the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues. Through essays, art, and literature, Surviving Canada examines the struggle for Indigenous Peoples to celebrate their cultures and exercise their right to control their own economic development, lands, water, and lives. The Indian Act, Idle No More, and the legacy of residential schools are just a few of the topics covered by a wide range of elders, scholars, artists, and activists. Contributors include Mary Eberts, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Leroy Little Bear."-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.